With projects using bead embroidery, stringing, bead crochet, stringing and other beading techniques, this book offers a fun and challenging opportunity to learn several different types of beading, and has designed to use to create rewarding beading projects for any beader.
A Fun way to Learn to Bead
Ann Benson always designs such charming projects; whimsical necklaces and bracelets, fun watches, divine bead embroideries and wonderful beaded needlepoint items, that I always look forward to any of her projects; patterns, kits, books, or DVDs.This book, Beadwork Basics, now considered a classic, is proof of Ann's ability to design enjoyable projects and present them in a manner that makes them accessible to new and veteran beader alike.
The range of projects in this book allows a new beader to begin with something fun and simple, such as a basic necklace or earring design, then leads up to more complex, challenging designs such as my favorites, the Isis and the Scarab beaded brooches, or the very sweet "Victoria's Legacy" pin. Get an introduction to wire work with the "French Wire" earring set, and learn basic stringing with several of the patterns in this book.
I recommend this book as an excellent first volume for a new beader, and consider it an essential addition to any beading book collector's shelf. With great tips for even advanced beaders, you will find yourself checking it again and again for tips and hint. Ann is a wonderfully intuitive teacher, and her calm teaching personality come across the page, making this one especially appropriate for a newer beader who is a little intimidated by some of the slightly more technical-sounding instructional books.
